CVE-2015-8439 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8439?

CVE-2015-8439 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Air, published on 10 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The SharedObject object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion" during a getRemote call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8456.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8439?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Air, Adobe Air Sdk, Adobe Air Sdk \& Compiler, Adobe Flash Player.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8439?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-8439 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8439 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Air

• CVE-2016-1010 Adobe Flash Player and AIR Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-8651 Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-8439 Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2012-2034 Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2015-8459 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Adobe Air vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-chc5-8jjx-6xcf, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8439.